In My Mailbox (25)

In My Mailbox is a weekly meme run by The Story Siren which explores the books that have been delivered to our mailbox.

For Review

 The Radleys: A Novel by Matt Haig (Simon & Schuster)

 Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian by Avi Steinberg (Random House)

The Fates Will Find Their Way: A Novel by Hannah Pittard (Harper / Ecco)

Won

The Reapers Are the Angels: A Novel by Alden Bell (Thanks to Zombieinfo.com and Henry Holt And Company Publishers)

 The Water Secret: The Cellular Breakthrough to Look and Feel 10 Years Younger by Howard Murad M.D. (Thanks to Allure Magazine)

 Assholes Finish First by Tucker Max  (Thanks to S&S Pocket Publicity)



We'd love to see what you received over the past week.  Leave us a comment and link below to your In My Mailbox so that we can visit!

Waiting on Wednesday (31): Season of Secrets

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is Season Of Secrets by Sally Nicholls.  It's due out on January 1, 2011 from Arthur A. Levine Books.

Book Description

The next novel from Sally Nicholls, author of the critically acclaimed WAYS TO LIVE FOREVER

Molly and Hannah have just lost their mother, and while Dad "figures things out", they're sent to stay with their grandparents in a quiet country town. Everything is different: there are only ten kids in their entire school; they have to walk home by themselves every day; and a phone call from Dad just isn't the same as a hug. In fact, they're not even sure when, or if, their dad will be back for them. (cont'd)

One night Hannah decides to run away, and Molly follows her out into the storm. Suddenly, Molly is surrounded by dogs and strange men on horseback, and they're all chasing a man in the road. Molly rushes to find someone to help him, but when she returns, he's nowhere to be seen. She finds him again the next day, and he's badly injured. As he heals, Molly befriends him and realizes that there's something magical about him. He can make a flower blossom in the palm of his hand; he can make a sapling grow in the dead of winter. Molly wants desperately to figure out who he is and just how much power he has. If he can make the trees come to life again, is there still hope for Molly's mother?

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Teaser Tuesdays (28): The Memory Closet

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme that was started by MizB from Should Be Reading.

If you would like to participate in Teaser Tuesday, all you have to do is take the book that you are currently reading and open it to any page. Then you choose any two (2) sentences from that page to share with the rest of us!

This weeks teaser comes from page 100 of The Memory Closet by Ninie Hammon.

I tried to stifle the laught but it got away from me and came out my nose in a decidedly unfeminine honk.  It sounded enough like a sneeze that I rolled with it, coughed into my hand a couple of times and tried to rearrange my face before I spoke.

This book is highly entertaining and funny for something about so serious a subject as a troubled childhood and amnesia!  Leave us a link to your teaser, we'd love to see it!

In My Mailbox (24)

In My Mailbox is a weekly meme run by The Story Siren which explores the books that have been delivered to our mailbox.

For Review

 Ranger's Apprentice, Book 9: Halt's Peril by John Flanagan

  Zan-Gah: A Prehistoric Adventure by Allan Richard Shickman

Zan-Gah and the Beautiful Country by Allan Richard Shickman


Won
 
 The Tension of Opposites by Kristina McBride (Thanks Lauren Bjorkman)

 The Absolute Value of -1 (Carolrhoda Ya) by Steve Brezenoff  (Thanks Lerner Books)

 Catapult: When Cats Fly by Mr. Higgs (Thanks Sterling Publishing)


We'd love to see what you received over the past week.  Leave us a comment and link below to your In My Mailbox so that we can visit!

Waiting on Wednesday (30): Kill Shakespeare Volume 1

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is Kill Shakespeare Volume 1 by Conor McCreery, Anthony Del Col, and Andy Belanger.  It's due out on November 9, 2010 from IDW Publishing.

Book Description

What Fables does for fairy tales, Kill Shakespeare does with the greatest writer of all time. This dark take on the Bard pits his greatest heroes (Hamlet, Juliet, Othello Falstaff) against his most menacing villains (Richard III, Lady Macbeth, Iago) in an epic adventure to find and kill a reclusive wizard named William Shakespeare 

Want to participate? Grab the logo, post your own WoW entry on your blog, and leave a link in the comments section!

In My Mailbox (23)

In My Mailbox is a weekly meme run by The Story Siren which explores the books that have been delivered to our mailbox.

For Review
 Two Tickets to the Christmas Ball: A Novella by Donita K. Paul

 Delirium by Lauren Oliver
Won
 Dust Devil by Anne Isaacs (Thanks to Random House)


 Fit for Life by Marilyn Diamond Harvey (Thanks to Books and Needlepoint)